Improvement in pictures



A. I'. CRAIG.

Picture.

No. 215,725. Patented May 27,1879.

N.PEIERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASNXNGTDN. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

ANNIE F. CRAIG, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN PICTU RES.

Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 215,725, dated May 27,1879; application tiled March 20, 1879.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ANNIE F. CRAIG, of the city of Washington, andDistrict of Columbia, have invented a new Method of Produc` ingPictures, of which the following is a speciication.

The object of my invention is to obtain a picture ot' strong life-likeappearance, and apparently in relief.

In order to carry out myinvention and make these pictures, it is firstnecessary to provide frames having a back recess of considerable depthand front glass, or I may construct the recess from a shallow box withglass face or top, which may be secured to any ordinaryT frame. Apicture obtained by photography, painting, or outlinecutting is producedon the face-glass of the frame or box. In the case of outline-cuttingthe picture is secured to the glass by some adhesive substance.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a front viewof a recessed frame, A, and front glass C, with a photographic or otherpicture, D, cemented to or placed upon said glass, and Fig. 2 is a sideVsection of the said frame, showing more dis-v tinctly the recess B.

The principal feature of my invention consists iu mounting the pictureso as to leave an inolosed space back of it, so that when the lightfalls upon the picture a shadow, E, of same will be thrown upon thebackground. This background may be on the actual back of the box or onan intermediate slide, and it may be plain or colored, or have on it arepresentation of landscape, architecture, or other artistic designproduced by painting, etching, engraving in relief, or intaglio, or itmay be a mirror.

, I do not claim a recessed frame or box for holding liowers, andprovided with a front glass because such I know to be old 5 but Havingdescribed my invention, what l claim as new isl. The method ot' mountingand exhibiting at photographic or other pictures so as to give theappearance of relief, which consists in placing the desired picture on aglass plate, and combining the same with a recessed frame or box in suchmanner as to have a space of considerable depth between the glass andbackground, Whereby the light falling upon the picture from any pointwill produce an outline or shadow of the sameon the background,substantially as described.

2. The frame A, provided with the recess B, front glass C, and pictureD, the latter being attached to said glass, and all arranged so as havean inclosed intervening space between the front glass carrying thepicture and the back of said frame or box, substantially as and for thepurposes set forth. ANNIE F. CRAIG.

Witnesses:

M. GARDNER, V. W. MIDDLETON.

